News & Highlights
AARP Sponsors Summer Internship at IOA
With the generous support of AARP, the UNC Institute on Aging is pleased to announce one internship position available to a graduate student at UNC-Chapel Hill, for summer, 2006. The work activities will relate to both the Institute’s aging workforce research and its Older Worker and Retirement Interest Group, and the AARP Aging Workforce Initiative. The deadline to apply is Monday, April 10th. The selection will be announced on or before Friday, April 21. More information...
NCCOA Paper Proposal Deadline Approaches
April 21, 2006 is the deadline to submit proposals for papers or presentations for the 5th Annual North Carolina Conference on Aging, with the theme "Boomers Turning 60—Implications For All of Us." Visit the Conference web site to view the call for presentations and related information. The Conference will be held October 25-27, 2006 at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel & Convention Center in Research Triangle Park, NC.2006 DeFriese Award Winners Announced
Please congratulate the winners of the Gordon H. DeFriese Awards for 2006! IOA CPHAR Doctoral Fellow Tiffany Shubert, MPT, is the student winner, receiving a $3,000 stipend, and the UNC School of Pharmacy's Mary Roth, Pharm.D., MHS, is the faculty recipient of a $5,000 stipend. The DeFriese Awards are given annually in recognition of Dr. DeFriese's 30-year career in the conduct and development of research to improve the lives of older North Carolinians. Read more...
2007 Senior Leaders Named
The Senior Leadership Enhancement Initiative Class of 2007 has been announced. Participants are Richard Bloom, Elizabeth Hansen, Peggy Conway and Barbara Bryan. The Senior Leadership Enhancement Initiative is sponsored by the UNC Institute on Aging, recognizing the importance of older adult leadership in addressing issues affecting citizens. Read more about the new Senior Leaders...
New AoA Grant Application Rules
In FY 2006, the Administration on Aging (AoA) is requiring all applicants for discretionary grants to apply via Grants.gov, a single source for information and application for competitive grant opportunities. Annual teleconferences to assist applicants with the process include this year's session scheduled for April 19 at 3:00pm. Visit the Grants.gov useful links page for details and a PowerPoint presentation and audio file from last year's session.
Good News For NC Colleagues
Dr. Bonita L. Marks, Associate Professor of Exercise Physiology at UNC-CH, will have an article published in an upcoming issue of British Journal of Sports Medicine. 'Health benefits for veteran (senior) tennis players' will appear in a special tennis supplement issue of the journal.
Second Journey's Visioning Councils Honored
The Chapel Hill nonprofit Second Journey has been honored by the Korber Foundation in Germany with a 2006 Transatlantic Idea Award. The award recognizes the innovative work of Second Journey's Visioning Councils. Read more...
Call For Submissions to Anthropology & Aging Quarterly
Emerging scholars are especially encouraged to contribute their work to Anthropology & Aging Quarterly, the official publication of the Association for Anthropology & Gerontology (AAGE). Currently produced as an electronic journal in February, May, August and November, the journal is edited by Dr. Samantha Solimeo, postdoctoral fellow at the Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development.
Featured Web Site
National Citizens' Coalition for Nursing Home Reform (NCCNHR)
http://www.nccnhr.org/
NCCNHR was formed in response to public concern about substandard care in nursing homes, and is the outgrowth of work first achieved by advocates working for Ralph Nader and later for the National Gray Panthers.
NCCNHR's current 20-member board includes nursing home residents.
NCCNHR's base is its two hundred member groups with an individual membership of over 1,000. Members and subscribers to NCCNHR's information resources from 42 states comprise a coalition of local citizen action groups, state and local long-term care ombudsmen, legal services programs, religious organizations, professional groups, nursing home employees' unions, concerned providers, national organizations, and growing numbers of family and resident councils. The web site features diverse resources such as policy news, newsletters, publications, fact sheets, and ombudsman directories.
New Library Resources
These are selected new additions to the AgeLib Digital Library. The links below will open a new window displaying the AgeLib record.
Ageism in America
view the record
Handbook of aging and the social sciences, 6th ed.
view the record
Handbook of the psychology of aging, 6th ed.
view the record
Will you still need me? The health and financial security of older Americans
view the record
New & Notable
Park, Nan Sook; Zimmerman, Sheryl; Sloane, Philip D.; Gruber-Baldini, Ann L.; Eckert, Kevin J. (2006). An empirical typology of residential care/assisted living based on a four-state study. The Gerontologist 46(2): 238-48.
He, Yaohua H.; Colantonio, A.; Marshall, Victor W. (2006).The relationship between career instability and health condition in older workers: a longitudinal analysis. In L. O. Stone (Ed.), New Frontiers of Research on Retirement (pp. 321-342). Ottawa, Ontario: Statistics Canada.
For a list of items recently published by North Carolina faculty, see New & Notable Publications.
Aging & Health Promotion News
Online learning modules on using health statistics available through Live Well, Live Long. The National Center for Health Statistics, the American Society on Aging, and the University of Michigan Social Science Data Analysis Network have developed online modules to help researchers better understand and use information from the new NCHS Data Warehouse section on Trends in Health and Aging. The modules are accessible through ASA's Live Well, Live Long web site, under the Statistics in Health and Aging link.
Heatlhy Aging Initiatives at Institute on Aging. The NC Healthy Aging Network web site is now known as the Healthy Aging Initiatives site. The renaming and reorganization of the site reflects the IOA's involvement in a variety of programs addressing healthy aging, both statewide and nationally. Research partnerships and web-based healthy aging resources are highlighted.
Upcoming Events in NC
April 13, 2006 CPHAR Seminar
"Biography and Opportunity: life course transitions in a comparative perspective"
Walter Heinz, Ph.D., University of Bremen
10-11:30 A.M., 720 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Chapel Hill, NC
April 17, 2006 CPHAR Seminar
"Improving health communication for older adults"
Dan Morrow, Ph.D., Pfizer Visiting Professorship in Health Communications
10-11:30 A.M., 720 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Chapel Hill, NC
April 20-21, 2006
"Delirium: More Attention, Less Confusion"
Duke University Delirium Research Group
Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club, Durham, NC
April 26-28, 2006
“Navigating the Network: Collaboration, Communication and Community”
Annual Training Conference of the North Carolina Association on Aging
Wrightsville Beach, NC
April 27, 2006 CPHAR Seminar
"Current Research on Self-Reported Health"
Ellen Idler, Ph.D., Department of Sociology, Rutgers University
10-11:30 A.M., 720 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Chapel Hill, NC
April 27-28, 2006
"Twenty Years: Creative New Directions in Research and Care 1987-2006"
Twentieth Annual Joseph and Kathleen Bryan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center Conference
Durham Marriott, Durham, NC
Community Bulletin Board
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Current listings include research studies in need of subjects.
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